Doodyville! It's Howdy Doody Time!

"The HOWDY DOODY Show" was the first network kids show to run 5 days a week, the first network show of the day (in the beginning it was preceded by the daily test pattern), the first television show ever broadcast in color, and the the first show ever to air more than 1,000 continuous episodes. In December of 1947, when Buffalo Bob Smith (born Robert Schmidt on 11/27/17) created and aired HOWDY DOODY, there were only 20,000 American homes that even had television sets. NBC only had six stations in the beginning, and HOWDY DOODY is credited as a major factor in the growth and popularity of that network. From the original show’s inception on December 27, 1947 until it’s final airing on NBC on December 30, 1960, HOWDY DOODY visited our homes 2,543 times.

In the mid '70's Buffalo Bob was coaxed to revisit Doodyville, and created 130 color episodes which ran for 2 years, and were then put into a vault for safekeeping and posterity. These "Lost Episodes" have recently been rediscovered and now owned by MemoryLane Syndication, Inc., an operating division of MediaNet Group Technologies, Inc. We have cleaned and digitized these episodes for the delight of today's children, and the child in everyone of HOWDY'S old friends whose daily enjoyment included watching this wholesome show at home or in the peanut gallery. These Howdy Doody episodes are being offered for television syndication and wholesale video sales through Memory Lane Syndication.